The Blue Fairy Book, Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp, sentence 204
He saw plainly that all his misfortunes were owing to the loss of the lamp, and vainly wondered who had robbed him of it.
Who acts: Aladdin, misfortunes · What happens: see, owe, wonder, rob · To what, where: loss, Aladdin · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Aladdin, misfortunes), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 saw | nsubj |
| 2 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | plainly | plainly | ADV | _ | 2 saw | advmod |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 9 owing | mark |
| 5 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 7 misfortunes | det:predet |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 misfortunes | nmod:poss |
| 7 | misfortunes | misfortune | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 owing | nsubj |
| 8 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 owing | aux |
| 9 | owing | owe | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 saw | advcl |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 loss | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 loss | det |
| 12 | loss | loss | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 owing | obl |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 lamp | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 lamp | det |
| 15 | lamp | lamp | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 loss | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 wondered | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 wondered | cc |
| 18 | vainly | vainly | ADV | _ | 19 wondered | advmod |
| 19 | wondered | wonder | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 saw | conj |
| 20 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 22 robbed | nsubj:pass |
| 21 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 robbed | aux |
| 22 | robbed | rob | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 wondered | ccomp |
| 23 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 robbed | obj |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 it | case |
| 25 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 robbed | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | Aladdin | plainly property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | owe | past · progressive | Aladdin's misfortunes | to the loss of the lamp goal | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent to loss=Goal | ||||
| 3 | wonder speech: ask | past | Aladdin not said here | vainly property | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V what S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | rob | past · perfect · passive | Aladdin | of lamp | tree rules |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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